‘The Burrow’ — Inside Churchill’s Lost Labyrinth of the London Blitz

“It was a top-secret, subterranean world, which, on security advice, Churchill was obliged to inhabit. In 1940 passers-by on the street above had no idea of its VIP occupant.” By Ronan Thomas WINSTON Churchill called…

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Cold Steel at Krasnobród – Inside the Curious WW2 Battle that Saw Cavalry Fight Cavalry

“The two sides smashed into one another, and for a few minutes the hillside on the sleepy outskirts of Krasnobród resembled a scene from the Napoleonic Wars as sabre met sabre in frenzied hand-to-hand combat.”…

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Local Boys — Exploring the Remarkable Figures in Just One Great War Battalion

“During its time on the front lines, the battalion saw action in some of the bloodiest battles on the Western Front.” By Mark Carmichael  THE BRITISH EMPIRE fielded hundreds of battalions to fight for the…

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“Iron Hand” – Meet Götz von Berlichingen, the Middle Ages’ Toughest Knight

“In an astonishing 47-year military career, Götz did battle in a series of bloody civil wars throughout Central Europe and fought campaigns against the French and the Ottomans.” FEW OUTSIDE OF Germany have probably ever heard of Götz…

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The Heroes of Graignes – How Residents of a Small Normandy Town Saved the Lives of More Than 100 U.S. Paratroopers

“It began when 12-year-old Marthe encountered a ‘tall’ paratrooper without a helmet or weapons who asked for shelter. Marthe went to the nearby home of her grandfather, seeking advice. The old man cautioned the girl….

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Desert Mirage — Meet the Illusionists Who Hid an Entire Allied Army from Rommel

“You must conceal 150,000 men with a thousand guns and a thousand tanks, on a plain as flat and as hard as a billiard table, and the Germans must not know anything about it, although…

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